be soft

aggressively working hard as to allow for more naps later on in life.

[buttonpoetry]

‘Not everything is a poem, Blythe,’ my mother scoffs. I laugh because I am certain everything is a poem if you catch it in just the right light, like a crystal.

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak (via buttonpoetry)

[art--woonz]

Art By IG: @vskafandre

direk izle Instagram: @artwoonz

[toastbutteregg]

this is amazing I’m so thankful it didn’t end up with anyone dying or else I’d cry myself to sleep

[beyoncesdancers]

Beyoncé gave us a whoooooole caption

[nuriaserene]

Bey took the time to bless us with words and I’m grateful. 

[mileycyrus]

[fencehopping]

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

[afloydianslip-deactivated201705]

H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

[disparition]

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

[roe-your-boat]

(reblogging for Disparition commentary) 

[mr-hoodrat-deactivated20170607]

Thank you Science side of tumblr

[burndownmiddletown-deactivated2]

I hugely appreciate people taking to the time explain stuff like this, as it helps put an end to the “wow, science is magic!” trope that’s become far too common.

[mediamattersforamerica]

The Weather Channel reacts to Trump pulling out of the Paris agreement. They’re not fucking around.

[sagansense]

Resist.

[braidsforblackgirls]

http://instagram.com/reformation 😍

[lindseyhmu]

I hate how addicted I get to anything that makes me feel anything

(via burmous)

[thelovejournals]

I like my hair messy. My love wild. And my sex aggressive. But I’m still a sensitive woman, just with passion.

Sade Harrison (via thelovejournals)

[sparklyunicornturds]

[msmarvel]

whoop there it is.

[kellycrayon]

What comic is this?

[msmarvel]

For those asking, this is from Ms Marvel (2016) #15

[businessinsider]

9 simple and classic cocktails every adult should know how to make

[parkistan]

Throwback to this iconic tweet

[bando--grand-scamyon]

🤔🤔🤔🤔

[kateordie]

It pretty much boils down to “I never had to think about it until it affected me personally”

[karina-padilla]

We are all Anderson Cooper

[goldnpoc]

His laugh😂💀

[champagnethotti]

omg he dead called the conversation stupid right in her face 😭😭

[virgoassbitch]

HEZ A GEMINI WITH AN ARIES MOON LMFAOOOO

[violaslayvis]

I’m Anderson

[dicknurse]

this was wild

[soulbrotherv2]

[feedmeburgers-deactivated201601]

I wanna know their names

[the-stray-liger]

Their names are Carlos Polanco, Carl Snyder and Alex Hall and they defeated the Harvard debate team on the topic of access to education for undocumented children 

[thereallizzybennett]

Reblogging again for the names

[chillary-clinton]

No.

[themillenialfalcon]

My favorite thing about this video was that he didn’t go on. Right after he said this he moved on to the next story. He didn’t go into a five minute think segment about the value of the press. He didn’t analyze the differing opinions. He just laughed and said no and moved. the. fuck. on. 

That is all he had to say. 

That is all that was needed to be said.

Fucking. 

No.

[tr-apstar]

Men are so fuckin weak dude I swear. Women are out there grindin like nothing’s wrong while bleeding out of their vaginas 7 days a month, cramps so bad we can barely function, pushing a human out of our hoohas, taking pills that fuck with our horomones just so you can hit it raw and you have the damn nerve to judge the size of our hips that have birthed the civilizations of the world like they were made to be admired by you? No. Next time you get flicked in the balls I don’t wanna hear u talk about how it’s so much harder being a man. Damn. Shout out to women. Don’t let men tell you shit.